man on horseback
Example Sentences
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Advocates have also come across images of yellow and black coasters showing a man on horseback with his reins in the air, chasing a family of three.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2022
During his second term as president, Jefferson was said to have run into a man on horseback near Monticello who proceeded to engage him in a lengthy complaint of everything wrong in Washington.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022
“That’s why Nietzsche said if you want to be a man on horseback, forget history, because it’ll stifle you—you’ll get full of doubts.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2018
The placard features the silhouette of a man on horseback, his sturdy hat nearly grazing a bough draped in Spanish moss.
From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2015
Down in the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai, they say there are oceans of ghost grass, taller than a man on horseback with stalks as pale as milkglass.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
